Storbråk om katten Gustaf – man eller kvinna?
Den tecknade katten Gustafs könsidentitet har orsakat ett bråk på Wikipedia, rapporterar Washington Post. Orsaken är en två år gammal intervju med seriefigurens skapare Jim Davis, där han säger att Gustaf är ”en katt och därför varken är man eller kvinna eller någon särskild ras eller nationalitet, ung eller gammal”.
Citatet har fått användare att ändra Gustafs kön till ”inget” på Wikipediasidan, vilket utlöste en ilsken debatt på sociala medier. I 60 timmar ändrades kattens kön fram och tillbaka tills Wikipedia valde att låsa sidan för redigering. Nu står det att Gustaf är en lat lasagneälskande hankatt.
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Garfield is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis. Published since 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character, the cat Garfield; Jon, his owner; and Jon's dog, Odie. As of 2013, it was syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers and journals, and held the Guinness World Record for being the world's most widely syndicated comic strip.
Though this is rarely mentioned in print, Garfield is set in Muncie, Indiana, the home of Jim Davis, according to the television special Happy Birthday, Garfield. Common themes in the strip include Garfield's laziness, obsessive eating, coffee, and disdain of Mondays and diets. The strip's focus is mostly on the interactions among Garfield, Jon, and Odie, but other recurring minor characters appear as well. Originally created with the intentions to "come up with a good, marketable character", Garfield has spawned merchandise earning $750 million to $1 billion annually. In addition to the various merchandise and commercial tie-ins, the strip has spawned several animated television specials, two animated television series, two theatrical feature-length live-action/CGI animated films, and three fully CGI animated direct-to-video movies.
Part of the strip's broad pop cultural appeal is due to its lack of social or political commentary; though this was Davis's original intention, he also admitted that his "grasp of politics isn't strong," joking that for many years, he thought "OPEC was a denture adhesive".
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